Word: successful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...case, said Barnard, is that the recipient's body is less prone to reject a heart transplant than a kidney, so future patients will not be so heavily dosed with drugs to suppress the immune reaction. That means less danger of infection and more hope of lasting success...
Died. Max Miller, 68, author of I Cover the Waterfront and 26 other books; following two strokes; in La Jolla, Calif. The success of Waterfront, a collection of vignettes drawn from assignments as a San Diego reporter, enabled Miller to give up newspapering, but he always retained a feel for the short take and the simple truth-notably with his boyhood adventures in 1933's The Beginning of a Mortal...
...contrast, the Soviet Union has scored only one success in 18 or 19 launches of probes to Mars and Venus. But that success was the apparent soft landing of a working, instrumented capsule on the surface of Venus last October, a feat indicating that the quality of Russian planetary probes is beginning to catch up to the quantity. U.S. experts expect a rash of additional Russian planetary shots in 1969 and the early 1970s, including a Martian soft-landing attempt as early...
...exaggerated belief of many students that their S.A.T. scores will determine whether they get into the college of their choice-or even any college at all. For the most part, the pain is pointless. A number of educators now contends that the tests are an imprecise indicator of future success-and colleges are relying on them less and less in picking their freshman classes...
...other critics deplore the pressure on students to score well on the tests. Many schools prep their students on the kind of vocabulary and mathematical skills tested by the exams; high school principals, as well as college publicists, tend to brag about high-average S.A.T. scores as badges of success...